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In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
05 August 2025 4:59 AM | No CommentsSon Heung-min leaves Tottenham Hotspur having made 333 appearances for the club over 10 seasons.
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“A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
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Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
29 June 2025 11:58 AM | No CommentsThe Japanese artist, both in physical presence and in spirit, seamlessly crossed over to the worlds of art, fashion, sports and even food.
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Paris 2024: Gymnastics – U.S. women victorious in “Redemption Tour”
29 June 2025 2:46 AM | No CommentsThere should have been no doubt: the U.S. women were the favorites to win the Olympic gold. And yet there was, stemming from what happened in Tokyo.
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Paris 2024: U.S. women hang on to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold
23 June 2025 11:54 AM | No CommentsThe U.S. women's team held off France, 67-66, at Bercy Arena.
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Film Archive
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![Twice in The Fourth Portrait, Chung Mong-hong’s downbeat, episodic, and almost surreally fragmented second feature, Wen-hsiang (Bi Xiao-hai), the ten-year old boy at the narrative’s center, enters, and emerges from, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The+Fourth+Portrait+-+image+2-115x115.jpg "Review: Chung Mong-hong’s “The Fourth Portrait”")
Review: Chung Mong-hong’s “The Fourth Portrait”
Christopher BournePosted on May 8, 2011 | No CommentsTwice in The Fourth Portrait, Chung Mong-hong’s downbeat, episodic, and almost surreally fragmented second feature, Wen-hsiang (Bi Xiao-hai), the ten-year old boy at the narrative’s center, enters, and emerges from, […] -
![The omnibus film Juliets consists of three short films set in the 1970’s, the 1980’s (in flashback), and the present day, all riffing on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Juliets+-+image+2-115x115.jpg "Review: “Juliets”")
Review: “Juliets”
Christopher BournePosted on May 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe omnibus film Juliets consists of three short films set in the 1970’s, the 1980’s (in flashback), and the present day, all riffing on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As […] -
Film Review: Lee Myung-se’s “Duelist”
Christopher BournePosted on May 6, 2011 | No CommentsIn "Duelist," Lee reduces narrative to a bare minimum, concentrating on color, balletic swordplay and the pursuit of its lovers/antagonists. -
![Chilsu and Mansu begins with the piercing sound of a civil-defense drill siren, a common feature of daily life for Koreans under the military government of Chun Doo Hwan in […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/chilsu-and-mansu-115x115.jpg "Review: Park Kwang-su’s “Chilsu and Mansu”")
Review: Park Kwang-su’s “Chilsu and Mansu”
Christopher BournePosted on April 29, 2011 | No CommentsChilsu and Mansu begins with the piercing sound of a civil-defense drill siren, a common feature of daily life for Koreans under the military government of Chun Doo Hwan in […] -
![The Tribeca Film Festival returns to New York for its tenth edition from April 20 through May 1, screening this year mostly at venues in the East Village and Chelsea. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/amour_fou_2-115x115.jpg "2011 Tribeca Film Festival: NEDS, Black Butterflies, L’amour Fou, Artificial Paradises")
2011 Tribeca Film Festival: NEDS, Black Butterflies, L’amour Fou, Artificial Paradises
Christopher BournePosted on April 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Tribeca Film Festival returns to New York for its tenth edition from April 20 through May 1, screening this year mostly at venues in the East Village and Chelsea. […] -
![Documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 2009 film La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, is a typically rigorous institutional examination, this time of the famed Paris Opera Ballet, getting up close and personal behind […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LA+DANSE_10-115x115.jpg "Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet”")
Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet”
Christopher BournePosted on April 22, 2011 | No CommentsDocumentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 2009 film La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, is a typically rigorous institutional examination, this time of the famed Paris Opera Ballet, getting up close and personal behind […] -
![Peter Greenaway’s 2008 film, Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, in which he subjects Rembrandt’s famous 1642 painting The Night Watch to intense forensic, visual, and historical analysis, is one of Greenaway’s very best […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/REMBRANDTSJACCUSE3-115x115.jpg "Review: Peter Greenaway’s “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse”")
Review: Peter Greenaway’s “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse”
Christopher BournePosted on April 15, 2011 | No CommentsPeter Greenaway’s 2008 film, Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, in which he subjects Rembrandt’s famous 1642 painting The Night Watch to intense forensic, visual, and historical analysis, is one of Greenaway’s very best […] -
![The Lookout is the brilliant culmination of screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank’s work on such superior crime films as Out of Sight and Get Shorty. His protagonist Chris Pratt […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TheLookout_scene_11-115x115.jpg "Review: Scott Frank’s “The Lookout”")
Review: Scott Frank’s “The Lookout”
Christopher BournePosted on April 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe Lookout is the brilliant culmination of screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank’s work on such superior crime films as Out of Sight and Get Shorty. His protagonist Chris Pratt […] -
![The wonderfully expressive face of veteran Filipina actress Anita Linda is the heart and main attraction of Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s mesmerizing 2008 film Adela. Alix takes the opposite approach from many […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Adela1-115x115.jpg "Review: Adolfo Alix Jr.’s “Adela”")
Review: Adolfo Alix Jr.’s “Adela”
Christopher BournePosted on April 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe wonderfully expressive face of veteran Filipina actress Anita Linda is the heart and main attraction of Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s mesmerizing 2008 film Adela. Alix takes the opposite approach from many […] -
![The 40th edition of New Directors/New Films screens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s (FSLC) Walter Reade Theater from March 23 through […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Belle+Epine+1-115x115.jpg "2011 New Directors/New Films Reviews: Belle Epine, Curling, Pariah")
2011 New Directors/New Films Reviews: Belle Epine, Curling, Pariah
Christopher BournePosted on March 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe 40th edition of New Directors/New Films screens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s (FSLC) Walter Reade Theater from March 23 through […]